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Whenever I delete a file or group of files on Lion, it prompts me for my password.
I can select 2-3 files, delete them and have to enter my password, then scroll down the same Finder window and, not less than 10 seconds later, delete another file and it asks me for my password again!
I don't see anything in Finder preferences that addresses this, nor anything in security.
Is this a bug or is there some way to disable this?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
I have upgraded to Lion on 5 Macs. All but one MacBook Pro work just fine, and that MacBook Pro has the same exact problem as all of you. So it must be a bug.
A workaround I found was to create another user in the system and move the files to it. It seems like an issue with the upgrade.
The reason it is doing this is because somehow your .Trash folder changed ownership to root. When you try deleting a file, you are really just moving it to the .Trash directory. To fix it, open up terminal and run this command: sudo chown yourusernamehere .Trash
Thanks, this resolved the issue. It appears quite a few people have had this problem, yet this is the first proper fix I have found.
At first I thought that can't be it, because I remember changing a setting a good while back so files are just deleted, not stored in the Trash directory.
But I listed the directory and ~/.Trash was owned by root. Once I chmod'ed it, the problem was gone.
So this is the fix.
What waas frustrating was that it worked fine from the Terminal and from other applications, just not from Finder. I guess that's because even if it's deleting a file, Finder still uses the .Trash directory. (My guess is it moves it to that directory, then deletes it.)
I had this issue too, but my file permissions were correct on my .Trash folder.
After a chat with a very helpful Apple Support rep the fix was to reset the permissions on the whole home folder.
Check the permissions on one of your offending files (Get Info) and if you see there are 2x 'everyone' permissions and one is set to 'custom' then you will have the same issue as me. If you change the 'custom' permission to something else you will find it will now delete.
I downloaded a small app called BatChmod and used this to batch process the permissions of my whole home folder. I suppose you could use chmod if you like ;-)
See pic below for the settings, and once run, log out and back in again.
Enjoy all your un-authenticated delete and move goodness!
@Corbin Schwarz: It helped!!! thank you
This started happening to me today (October 16th) out of the blue. I tried verifying Permissions and Repairing Permissions -- didn't solve the problem. Corbin's suggestion seems to have worked for me. 🙂 Don't know why or how my Mac got in that situation????
Are you sure your sharing & permissions included your name? Or just "system"?
Try this out, worked for me, and it's easy as taking candy from a kid. Not that I did that. Anyway:
STEP 1. Make your hidden and system files visible:
Open Terminal.app and type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
STEP 2. In your home folder, look for the ".Trash" folder.STEP 3. Right click and select "Get Info".STEP 4. Look at the bottom of the recent opened window for Sharing & Permissions.*** STEP 5. THE PROBLEM ***
STEP 6. Click the + (plus) sign and add your user (assuming you're the admin).STEP 7. Set Read & Write permissions for you.STEP 8. Click the lockpad again to lock it (duh :S).STEP 9. Make your hidden and system files INvisible again:
Open Terminal.app and type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
That worked for me. Cya!
The Batchmod solution finally fixed my issue. I had gone through many of the suggestions given in other threads, but the one offered by leece fixed my issue. Thank you SO MUCH!
your sudo chown yourusernamehere .Trash solution also solved my trash/password Lion problem. Many Thanks!
Lion Demands Password For Each File Delete
